Spinoza’s Ethica: “Een remedie tegen zeuren” - #Spinoza

Spinoza is the sovereign philosophic cure for whining because he wrote to free us from powers we cannot ourselves muster and thus from the fear that our hopes are ungrounded.

Michael S. Kochin in “A Cure for Whining.”
Review of Steven B. Smith, Spinoza's Book of Life.
In: The Review of Politics 66 (Fall 2004), p. 681-82. Cf. academia.edu